Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 11
Most kinds of bee live alone; a solitary bee lays its eggs in a hole in a wall, a hollow stem or a tunnel in the ground.
Who acts: Most kinds, solitary bee · What happens: live, lay · To what, where: eggs, hole
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most kinds, solitary bee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 kinds | amod |
| 2 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bee | case |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kinds | nmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 lays | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bee | det |
| 9 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bee | amod |
| 10 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lays | nsubj |
| 11 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lays | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hole | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lays | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stem | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stem | det |
| 22 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stem | amod |
| 23 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | appos |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 tunnel | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tunnel | det |
| 26 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stem | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tunnel | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Most kinds of bee | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | a solitary bee | flower's eggs | a hole in a wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in hole=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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